Teams, Culture &
Psychosocial Safety
Three interconnected services — building high-performing teams, transforming organisation-wide culture, and ensuring your psychosocial safety obligations are met with genuine rigour. All measurement-led. All evidence-based.
Board-ready
Leadership & Culture
Who It’s For
Our Approach
Tools
Packages
Service 01 — Overview
Psychosocial Safety:
From Compliance to Culture
Australian organisations now carry explicit, enforceable duties to manage psychosocial hazards. Meeting your compliance obligation is the floor — not the ceiling. We help organisations build programs that satisfy regulatory requirements while genuinely improving the wellbeing and performance of their people.
Under updated WHS regulations now in force across Australian jurisdictions, psychosocial hazards carry the same regulatory weight as physical safety risks. Recent prosecutions include penalties exceeding $500,000 for failures in psychosocial risk management.
Under updated WHS regulations now in force across Australian jurisdictions, psychosocial hazards carry the same regulatory weight as physical safety risks. Recent prosecutions include penalties exceeding $500,000 for failures in psychosocial risk management.
We Measure
All Relevant Psychosocial Hazards
Structured hazard identification using WPSQ, PSC-12, and qualitative consultation. Documents your hazard register.
We Shift
Risk Controls at Every Level
Evidence-based controls at system, leadership, and individual levels — addressing root causes, not symptoms.
We Embed
Manager Capability & Systems
Training, coaching, and monitoring systems so psychosocial safety lives in daily practice, not just policy.
You Gain
Defensible Compliance & Culture
Documentation that satisfies regulators, plus repeat measurement that proves genuine improvement to your board.
This Is Right For You If…
You Recognise These Situations
You lead a team and feel culture isn’t what you intended it to be
You’re facing elevated psychosocial risk or regulatory scrutiny
Standard leadership training hasn’t produced lasting change
You want data — not anecdote — to demonstrate culture improvement
You’re scaling rapidly and need culture to keep pace with growth
Post-merger or restructure — you need coherence from disparate parts
Who It's For
Right For You If & Works Best When
Leadership and culture work is a serious undertaking. It delivers for organisations with genuine readiness — not just appetite.
Our Approach
A Measurement-Led Five-Step Method
All engagements begin with rigorous measurement and close with a formal impact report — defensible, data-driven evidence of what shifted, formatted for your board or regulator.
Step 1
Diagnostic & Baseline Measurement
Validated psychometrics — WPSQ, Leadership Mindset Inventory, and 360° behavioural assessments. Replaces assumption with data from day one.
Step 2
Individual Debrief & Insight
Each leader receives a personalised debrief with a qualified organisational psychologist — creating the moment of genuine insight that makes change feel necessary, not just possible.
Step 3
Cohort-Based Development
Group workshops translating individual insight into shared language and collective practice — psychological safety, cognitive flexibility, constructive conflict, culture-shaping behaviours.
Assessment Instruments
The Tools Behind
Every Engagement
A regulatory-grade instrument suite — combining internationally validated psychosocial measures with targeted hazard-specific tools.
Primary Instrument
WPSQ — Workplace Psychosocial Safety Questionnaire
Full 34-item psychosocial safety climate measure across four domains — our regulatory-grade primary instrument.
Qualitative
Structured Focus Group Consultation
Facilitated qualitative data collection contextualising psychometric findings — essential for regulator-grade hazard identification.
Analysis
Qualitative & Thematic Analysis
Rigorous thematic analysis of qualitative data from focus groups, interviews, and open-text responses — identifying patterns and insights beyond numbers.
Team Analytics
Team Excel
A live, online team analytics approach synthesising multiple assessment and organisational data sources into integrated insights on team psychological health & safety and performance drivers.
Packages
Psychosocial Safety
Engagements
From documentation-grade compliance audits to end-to-end safety programs and ongoing risk-monitoring retainers.
Focused
Compliance Kick-Starter
A focused starting point for organisations needing to satisfy regulatory requirements with documentation-grade psychosocial hazard identification.
WPSQ full organisation assessment
Hazard Register & Inform Risk Assessment
Qualitative consultation (focus groups / interviews)
Control measure recommendations report
Board / WHS committee presentation
Signature
Psychosocial Safety Program
End-to-end psychosocial safety management — from measurement and risk assessment through to control implementation, leadership development, and ongoing monitoring.
Full Enterprise-wide Annual Psychosocial Measurement
Divisional Reporting
Control measure design and implementation support
Leadership psychosocial safety capability workshops
Manager training: early intervention and support skills
Individual safety coaching for at-risk leaders
Employee awareness and wellbeing resources
Quarterly WPSQ monitoring and reporting
Annual program review and regulatory update briefing
Ongoing
Psychosocial Safety Retainer
Continuous risk management support — ongoing measurement, advisory access, and rapid-response consulting for psychosocial risk events.
Bi-annual WPSQ measurement and trend analysis
Monthly advisory access (strategic consulting)
Retained coaching for Leaders and Teams, proactive and targeted intervention
Annual regulatory compliance review
Access to proprietary psychosocial safety resources
Hear from our clients,
What do they say about us?
We have worked across a wide range of sectors and organisational contexts, helping leaders, teams, and organisations build stronger culture, healthier workplaces, and more sustainable performance.
Steve Thomson
Senior Consultant – Capability and Program Delivery
Damien was terrific; he handled the large group really well and was able to adjust to things that arose during the sessions, in terms of meeting the diverse needs of the group. Really great and we appreciate the introduction to him!
John Doe
CAHS Child Adolescent Health Services WA Govt
I really enjoyed the content on personal values, the worksheet resources and diagrams, as well as the presentation style today.
I’d absolutely be keen for any other sessions that are presented by Damian / The Science of Happiness and Success in future.
Judy Slatyer
Chair, Sustainability, ESG, AI
April 1, 2021, Judy was senior to Damian but didn’t manage Damian directly
Damian and I worked together at Australian Red Cross. He was a great coach to me, the leadership team and the Board on our role in leading and role modelling a constructive and performance-oriented culture. A great listener, Damian was also good at holding up the mirror to me in a way which helped me see what I didn’t see and change as a result. Professional, thoughtful and of the highest integrity are the three attributes which come to mind when I think of Damian.
Steve Thomson
Senior Consultant – Capability and Program Delivery
Damien was terrific; he handled the large group really well and was able to adjust to things that arose during the sessions, in terms of meeting the diverse needs of the group. Really great and we appreciate the introduction to him!
John Doe
CAHS Child Adolescent Health Services WA Govt
I really enjoyed the content on personal values, the worksheet resources and diagrams, as well as the presentation style today.
I’d absolutely be keen for any other sessions that are presented by Damian / The Science of Happiness and Success in future.
Judy Slatyer
Chair, Sustainability, ESG, AI
April 1, 2021, Judy was senior to Damian but didn’t manage Damian directly
Damian and I worked together at Australian Red Cross. He was a great coach to me, the leadership team and the Board on our role in leading and role modelling a constructive and performance-oriented culture. A great listener, Damian was also good at holding up the mirror to me in a way which helped me see what I didn’t see and change as a result. Professional, thoughtful and of the highest integrity are the three attributes which come to mind when I think of Damian.
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